smith30012

Medical errors are rampant these days. Some of them go UN-reported and swept under the wrong. You rarely hear about multiple code blues and one of them losing their lives because of either short staffed, failure to monitor properly or not following proper protocol to insure each patient experiencing a code blue gets Rapid Response and Timely care to increase their chances of living and not cause any adverse events. My father did not have that chance. There is a slight twist to the "To Be (Monitored) or Not To Be (Monitored) with my father. Here is my story: A multiple code blue took place on September 9, 2012 in ICU. While one patient was being attended to, my father and others went UN-monitored. I left the room around 4 am came back around 4:45 am and found him unresponsive. I ran for help. This resulted in Anoxic Encephalopathy, Right Hamiparesis/Hemiplegia, Coma, Global Cerebral Ischemia, Necrosis and death. I gleaned those terms from his medical records in order to educate myself. They referred to absence of oxygen. There is eight hours of missing mount sheets, before the code. I’ve asked for evidence of the machines working properly, why didn't they know there was a second code, did the machines go off, could they have been muted, was he connected properly, what was the nurse/patient ratio then, how was it that they caught the other patient’s code, but not his, his room was right at the nurse’s station, why didn't they see visually what was happening, and why wasn’t "Rapid Response” or "Timely Care given to prevent further harm? How do you be on the floor of ICU surrounded by monitors, but yet you have a multiple code but not be equipped to handle it? My father went Unmonitored and while everyone was away, including me his plea for help went Unheard...